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Astronomical Data Archives

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General databases

  • SIMBAD - mainly galactic
  • NED - NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

An incomplete list of sky surveys

  • SDSS - imaging and spectroscopy of the northern extragalactic sky
  • PanSTARRS - imaging of everything at
  • Dark Energy Survey - imaging of 5000 sq. deg. of southern extragalactic sky
  • 2MASS - infrared all-sky survey
  • Gaia - astrometry and photometry for 1.8 billion stars, all-sky
  • TESS - lightcurves of 200,000 stars, all-sky
  • OGLE - lightcurves of stars in Galactic bulge and Magellanic Clouds
  • LIGO - Gravitational Wave events

Transient alerts and data

An incomplete list of telescope archives

  • Hubble Legacy Archive - images from the Hubble telescope, nice interface
  • MAST - data from UV, optical, and infrared space telescopes; some High-Level Science Products; PanSTARRS
  • ESO - data from ESO telescopes, including the VLT
  • NOAO - data from NOAO telescopes; older site here
  • KOA - some data taken with Keck telescopes
  • Gemini
  • CFHT
  • telarchive - python tool to query a number of these archives at one
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